Improvement in the art of knitting stockings and other articles



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FREDERIOH W. POLLE, LOUISA KEISKER, AND SALLIE POLLE, OF PORT GIBSON,MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE ART OF KNITTING STOCKINGS AND QTHER ARTICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,563, datedSeptember 7, 1875; application filed October 24, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, F. W. POLLE, LOUISA KEISKER, and SALLIE PoLLE, ofPort Gibson, in the county of Claiborne and State of Mississippi, haveinvented a new and valuable improvement in the art of knitting severalarticles at one time upon the same set of needles; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the lettersand figures of reference marked thereon.

The figures of the drawings are representations of knitting-work indifferent stages of construction, according to our improvement.

Our invention has relation to an improvement in knitting; and thenovelty consists in knitting two ormore stockings or other garments onone set of needles at the same time, and in the manner hereinafter morefully explained.

To knit two stockings simultaneously upon one set of needles, we firstcast upon them the stitches alternately from two different balls ofyarn, designated in the drawings by the letters A B, using as manystitches of each separate yarn as would be required for each sep arategarment. Thus, when two stockings are set up on one set of needles,there will be twice as many stitches on the needles as there would be ifbut one single garment were set up. The letters 0 C 0 designate theneedles, of which as few as four may be used, three to set the work upon, and one to work with. The knitting is then continued as in theordinary method, taking the stitches of the diflerent yarn alternately,care being taken to keep the ball of yarn of which the outside stockingis being knit always upon the outside of the work, and the yarn of theinside stocking inside of the work to prevent their becomin g entangledwith each other.

In knitting any number above two of stockings or other similar garments,in order to prevent the diflerent yarns from crossing and interlacingwith each other in the work, it is necessary to keep the yarns of theinner garments each between the garment to which it belongs and thenext, keeping always the same order as that in which the work wascommenced, pulling up each yarn when required for a new stitch, and whenthis stitch is knit pulling it down again under the work, so that whenthe next stitch of that particular garment .is to be taken its yarn willcross underneath to it in a straight line without interfering with anyyarn of another garment.

Thus, in simultaneously knitting four stockings, we cast onto the needle0 a stitch from the first yarn, A, then one from the second, B, one fromthe third, 0, one from the fourth, D, until the required number ofstitches is set up on the needles. first yarn, A, we pass it outside ofthe needles, where it will always remain during the work. Next, pull upthe second yarn, B, from underneath the first, knit it, and pull itdown. This yarn will continue to be between the first and secondgarments throughout the work. Then knit the third yarn, O, reversing thestitch to make the right side of this garment face toward the rightsides of the other two, keeping this yarn inside of the needles, whereit will always remain, the nearest yarn to the knitter. Next, pull upthe fourth yarn, D, from underneath the third, and knit it, reversingthe stitch. This yarn should always be kept between the third and fourthgarments. This process is to be again and again gone through until thegarments are ready for finishing or binding oft, always keeping theyarns in the order described. When there are a number of stitches to bebound off we work around one entire garment, carrying the loop of yarnalong on the working-needle to each stitch, alternating the stitches Iof the other garments to the end. The garment will still be held by theneedles upon which it was set up. Then bind off the remaining garmentsin the same manner, after which. pull out all the needles upon which theseveral garments were set up, and the garments will appear perfectlyindependent of each other.

Any single garment that can be knit singly may be knit in duplicate uponone set of nee dles at the same time.

By means of this improvement, while the same set of needles can be usedto knit two or more articles of the same pattern and at Then, afterknitting the the same time, uniformity of size is secured without theusual comparing of one article with the other when dropping or taking upstitches in the act of reducing or increasing the diameter of the knitarticle.

What we claim as new is The improvement in the art of knitting two ormore garments at the same time upon the same set of needles, the sameconsisting in setting up on the needles the loops of each garment, sothat they alternate one with the other, and in removing them in the sameorder, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses.

F. W. POLLE. LOUISA KEISKER. SALLIE POLLE. Witnesses:

HERMANN GoEPEL, SOLN. UNGER.

